I have the opportunity to acquire a Chipmaster from a local engineering shop as the starting point for my workshop. I have looked at lathes.co.uk, which is a fountain of good knowledge. It looks like it is a good piece of kit. The speed control looks a bit hairy though? It is a 3 phase unit, so I will need some form of conversion. A few questions arise.
1) The vendor is open to offers, any idea of value? A web search reveals a huge range of prices. 2) Has anyone had any experience of a single phase conversion on the chipmaster. An inverter seems to be the way to go, any recommendations? 3) Anything I should be looking out for why I go and have a look at it? 4)Any other comments experience of this latheThanks
Stuart